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2025 (English)In: Ambio, ISSN 0044-7447, E-ISSN 1654-7209, Vol. 54Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article presents a new way of understanding Global Environmental Governance (GEG), historically and functionally. We outline a revised analytical framing, which connects the post-WWII moment of early globalizing conservation with the intensifying attempts to govern the human-earth relationship through an ever-growing assemblage of governable environmental objects and their quantifiable indicators as proxies. Our argument is as follows: (1) GEG has followed a trajectory of dispersal of actors, institutions, conceptual tools and responsibilities from the micro- and local scales to the planetary. We analyze how these trajectories unfold in three essential domains: Earth System science, sovereignty, and neoliberalization. (2) GEG is performative. The governance itself has created the dynamic environmental objects under governance. (3) In this way, GEG has normalized the environment as a policy object.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2025
Keywords
Diplomatic history; Earth system science, history; Environmental history; Global environmental governance, history; Global environmental objects
National Category
History Technology and Environmental History Environmental Studies in Social Sciences
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-363051 (URN)10.1007/s13280-025-02177-x (DOI)001480446900001 ()40317417 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-105004019683 (Scopus ID)
Funder
EU, European Research Council, 787516Swedish Research Council, 2022-1167KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Note
QC 20250505
2025-05-032025-05-032025-06-09Bibliographically approved